Glynne Walley

Statement

Glynne Walley received an MA in Japanese Literature from Washington University in St. Louis in 2001 and a PhD in Japanese Literature from Harvard University in 2009. His research interests involve popular literature and how it negotiates the requirements of industry and genre, the demands of a mass audience, and the aspirational pull of “serious” literature. His main focus is popular fiction of the late Tokugawa period; his current book project concerns the early 19th-century adventure novel Nansō Satomi hakkenden (Eight Dogs of the Satomi Clan of Southern Kazusa) by Kyokutei Bakin.

Teaching interests focus on Japanese literature of the early modern (Edo or Tokugawa) period, but also include medieval literature, modern literature, visual culture, comics broadly defined (from medieval picture scrolls to contemporary manga), and translation studies.

Teaching

Past courses:JPN 410/510: Translation and Japanese LiteratureJPN 399: Early Modern JapanJPN 399: Medieval JapanJPN 410/510: Yoshimoto BananaJPN 410/510: SaikakuJPN 399: The Tale of the HeikeJPN 407/507: The Myth of the Samurai in Japanese CultureARH 410/510: The First Manga: The Kibyōshi of 18th Century Japan